The states with the largest acres burned were Alaska with 113,803 acres, Arizona with 177,297 acres, California with 113,639 acres and Idaho with 108,592 acres. The states that have the largest number of fires burning this week are Arizona and Idaho, with 13 fires each and Montana with 12.
RELATED: Death Valley temperature hit 130 degrees, close to world record and only three have been contained, according to the NIFC. 1 and July 13 and in 2021 - a decade later - 33,953 wildfires have been recorded within the same timeframe.Ĭurrently, 67 large fires have burned through 917,954 acres across the U.S. In 2011, 39,888 wildfires burned between Jan. Meanwhile, the number of wildfires that have burned in 2021 so far has reached the highest number in a decade, according to NIFC. RELATED: Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change, study saysįirefighters have had some success with keeping the Bootleg Fire out of several small communities but so far the fire is 0% contained, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
They say extreme conditions are often from a combination of unusually random, short-term and natural weather patterns heightened by long-term, human-caused climate change. Scientists say climate change has made the West much warmer and drier, and they warn that weather will get wilder as the world warms. The fire’s movement prompted authorities to place additional areas under evacuation notice and expand the number of acres ordered closed on an emergency basis inside Fremont-Winema. The week-old Bootleg Fire threatened about 2,000 homes and destroyed more than 20 others, along with other minor structures. Expect the fire to do things that you have not seen before." "We have not seen a fire move like this, in these conditions, this early in the year. "As you go out there today - adjust your reality," Lawson said. Huge swaths of the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southern Oregon were incinerated as firefighters received a warning about conditions from incident commander Al Lawson. RELATED: Number of US wildfires so far in 2021 largest in a decade, fire center data says
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